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New Orleans
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The millions of vacationers who came here every year before Katrina were mostly unaware of this poverty. French Quarter tourists were rarely exposed to the reality beneath the Disneyland Gomorrah that is projected as 'N'Awlins,' a phrasing I have never heard a local use and a place, as far as I can tell, that I have never encountered despite my years in the city. The seemingly average, white, middle-class Americans whooped it up on Bourbon Street without any thought of the third-world lives of s
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― Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
― Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
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...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."
-Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans
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― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
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